Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long. I will
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Why did Britain stop making?
For forty years we were told that Britain didn’t need manufacturing — finance would make us rich. That experiment has failed. We import more than
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AI and the Budget
One to watch for in next week’s Budget and associated forecasts is the suggested impact of AI on employment rates in the UK. The FT
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Covid: the Tories deserve all the criticism they’re getting
The Tories’ response to Covid in March 2020 was chaotic and indecisive, according to the official report on the issue. The Guardian notes: “Too little
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The Top 250 Blogpost List
There is a new page on this blog today. You can find it from the main menu. That has got three lines on it, top
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Alternatives to neoliberalism
There has been some criticism here of my overuse of the term ‘neoliberalism’, which, it has been suggested, is not widely understood beyond the environs
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The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 6: Addressing issues in housing
Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long. I will be
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Rachel Reeves is unravelling
Rachel Reeves is presenting a budget built on assumptions that simply cannot survive the world we are about to enter. Share prices are likely to
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Ultra-processed food is not a dietary choice. It is a political economy problem.
There is a sentence in The Lancet’s new series on ultra-processed foods (UPFs), published this week, that makes clear exactly what the issue with them
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